Description
Tokyo, Graphic-sha Publishing, 1991
Softcover in purple stiff paper wrappers and pictorial dust jacket, 30 x 23 cm, 157 pages. Text in English/Japanese. First edition.
David Stone Martin (1913-1992) was a prolific American artist, who made illustrations for over 400 jazz records. As close to a catalogue raisonné of the first 150 records as you can get for now. The records are organised record label, musician and genre. With 65 drawings by David Stone Martin commissioned in the ’80s by a private collector.
Book design = Shinju Onuki + Yoichi Ito + Keiko Tadeka
Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- An ‘Overview’
- A Jazzview
- The Drawing Style
- Jazz in Pen and Ink (by Dr. Matina Schmitz)
- The Record Covers
- A Portfolio of Portraits.
A good copy, some minor wear to the wrappers.
